# Cuba’s president calls US arrest warrant for Raul Castro a ‘pathetic circus’

https://mins.news/en/item/106832

- TASS, 2026-10-19 20:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2204377

> Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced the US arrest warrant for former leader Raul Castro as a pathetic, election-driven circus. He said the move had no legal basis and was cloaked in a pseudo-legal form by anti-Cuban politicians as part of an aggressive agenda against Cuba.

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